I grew up watching reruns of the original MMC in the mid-70's. I remember my older sisters making a big deal out of the fact that they were starting to rerun them on a regular basis, and I definately got into them. I think the reruns in the mid-70's led to the revival of the show in the late 70's, which would include Lisa Welchel from The Facts of Life as a mouskateer. I did watch some of that revival, but didn't make it far as I was starting to get obssessed with girls and KISS by that time and was losing interest.

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To my dismay my older brother and sister, cynics though they were, needed to watch it every afternoon...the reruns... I remember them exactly as Raffine described them, but I wasn't no devotee... Except maybe when the mini-program "Annette" came on.

I'll buy that. I admit being taken a by her too. And I also remember being a bit taken with the one girl in the 70's reboot of The New Mickey Mouse Club...her name was Nina if I remember right. She was kinda cute.

We used to watch it in reruns....whenever we saw it over at our cousins' house our cousin Randy would march through the livingroom yelling,"D-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-O-S-E! Dickey Moose,Dickey Moose...". Ah,fond childhood memories.

I recall the old re-runs.I'm with Raffine and Hallows on this.I just wanted to slap them all,and scream-"WAKE UP!" It was the equivelant of tasteless Wonderbread toast with margarine.I'll take a garlic and onion bagel with crunchy peanut butter anyday.

We had some episodes on video tape. If I remember correctly, it was a bit like ZOOM.

It was really very little like ZOOM.

Yeah, my memory is probably bad. All I remember is that The Mickey Mouse Club featured a bunch of kids in a doing stuff studio, and they were interrupted by documentary shorts. Zoom also featured kids in a studio being interrupted by shorts, so that's where the comparison came in.

Interesting note: The TV show wasn't the first incarnation of The Mickey Mouse Club; the first version was made for theaters as a way to market their cartoons.